Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON: Until now, skin creams and surgery were the methods women employed to live long and look younger. But now there's a new and surprising way to add years to a female life: giving birth in your forties...
When we met her in 1980 she was shy Di, with the streaked pageboy and lanky limbs backlighted through the thin flowered skirt. She was all raw material, charm and skin and a curtsy, the kindergarten teacher who could cross the street without stopping traffic. She would never be a perfect beauty, so the fun was watching her become a great one, the bones and the bearing taking shape before the cameras, as though by an effort of will...
...pictured from time to time at a dinner party or on a boat. In older age she might have become the King's mother, welcomed back into the royal family at a time of life that is automatically accorded stature. How would she have looked? The hair whiter, the skin a bit more lined, but the eyes would still have had that sweet mixture of kindness and longing. By then the story of her and Charles, the scandals and recriminations, might have been lost in smoke...
FOUL FISH Think farmed fish must be safe? Don't bet on it. Prior to cooking, the popular farmed fish tilapia, also called St. Peter's fish, may harbor strep bacteria on its skin that can cause severe swelling of the hands, fever or complications like meningitis...
...snappers were on the scene after the crash, rather than being involved in a high-speed chase of Diana's car. One even claims his client actually checked the Princess's pulse while taking pictures of the wreckage. If this is true, it may save the photographer's skin as far as France's Good Samaritan Law is concerned. The court of public opinion may not be so forgiving...